Forest and Stream. 



A Weekly Journal of the Rod and Gun. 



NEW YORK, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1893. 



Terms, $4 a Year. 10 Cts. a Copy. I 

 Six Months, $2. J 



J VOL. XLI.— No. 12. 



I No. 318 Bboadwat, New York, 



CONTENTS. 



Editorial. 



Sunday Along the Docks. 

 Bass in Oneida Lake. 

 American Big Game Hunting. 

 Ramon E. Wilson. 

 Snap Shots. 



The Sportsman Tourist. 



The Museum Moose.— in. 



Our Hunting and Fishing Trip. 



"Coahoma's" Walking Stick. 



Natural History. 



Told by a Bohemian. 

 What an Angler Saw. 



Game Bag and Gun. 



Chicago and the West. 

 Worth Thinking About. 

 Three Days at Plymouth. 

 Forest and Stream in' the 

 World's Fair. 



Sea and River Fishing. 



Chicago and the "West. 

 The Viviparous Perch. 

 Angling Notes. 

 Fishing Postals. 



The Kennel. 



Manitoba Field Trials. 

 Southern California Field Trials. 

 Toronto Dog Show. 

 "Ashmont" Trophy Fizzle at 



Toronto. 

 Providence Dog Show. 

 Kennel Notes. 



The Kennel. 



Answers to Correspondents. 

 Huntinfir and Coursing. 



Is Shooting the Fox Assassina- 

 tion? 



N. E. Beagle Club Trials. 

 Yachting. 



American Model Y. C. 



British Racing and Racing 



Courses. 

 Navahoe. 



Sippican Regatta of 1893. 

 Yacht Racing in Southern 



W^aters. 

 International Racing. 

 News Notes. 



Canoeing. 



Cruising Canoe Yawls. 

 Canoeing as an Amateur Sport. 

 Passaic River Regattas. 

 News Notes. 



Rifle Range and Gallery. 



Zettler Prize Shoot. 

 Revolver Shooting in England. 

 Rifle Notes. 



Trap Shooting. 



John Parker's Third Annual. 

 Manufacturers' and Dealer' As- 

 sociation at Allentown. 

 Drivers and Twisters. 

 Answers to Queries. 



For Prospectus and Advertising Rates see Page IV. 



AIIERICAN BIG GAME HUNTING. 

 Public attention has lately been drawn to the Boone 

 and Crockett Club by the hunter's cabin which it erected 

 on the wooded island at the World's Fair, and which has 

 excited a real interest in the rough life of the wilderness 

 West. 



The Boone and Crockett Club is an organization of big 

 game hunters. In its membership have been included 

 many men eminent in various walks of life. Soldiers, 

 statesmen, explorers, scientists, literary men, lawyers 

 and business men are counted in the list. When the club 

 was formed, its objects as set forth in its constitution 

 were to promote manly sport with the rifle, and travel 

 and explorations in portions of the country about which 

 little is known; to work for the preservation of the large 

 game of the country and to influence legislation looking 

 to that end; to promote inquiry into the habits of our 

 wild animals, and to further among the members the 

 exchange of opiniors on topics of interest to the club. 

 These are all good objects and the club has lived up to 

 the standard which it set for itself. Little need be said of 

 the quiet work that it has accomplished, the good influence 

 that it has wielded, in part by what it has said and done 

 in favor of a higher standard of sportsmanship, and in 

 part unconsciously by its practice of the principles which 

 it follows. It has accomplished not a little and hopes to 

 do more. 



At its annual meeting, held in January last, the club 

 determined to publish a volume on American big game. 

 Editors were appointed and contributions asked for from 

 the members, and in about two weeks the resulting book 

 will be published by the Forest and Stream Pub. Co. Its 

 title is "American Big Game Hunting," but while devoted 

 chiefly to big game and its hunting, it covers also certain 

 subjects of great interest to the big game hunter, which 

 yet are not strictly a part of killing game. Such are the 

 paper by Mr. Arnold Hague on "The Yellowstone Park as 

 a Game Preserve," that by Mr. W. B. Devereux on "Photo- 

 graphing Big Game," and two articles by the editors, one 

 on the "Literature of American Big Game Hunting," and 

 the other on "Om- Forest Reservations." As is natural, a 

 considerable amount of space is given to the buffalo, on 

 which species there are two chapters. 



Of course no exhaustive discussion of aU species of 

 American big game could be compressed within the limits 

 of a single book, and in this initial volume of the series 

 proposed by the club it is not attempted to exhaust the 

 subject. Other volumes are promised annually hereafter 

 which will be likely to give us a series of chapters on 

 North American big game which can hardly fail to add a 

 great deal to our knowledge of the various species. 



Although much has been written about the white goat 

 of the Western mountains, he still remains almost the 

 least known of our large game animals. Mr. Owen Wis- 

 ter has conti-ibuted to the forthcoming book of the 

 Boone and Crockett Club a charming article on this species, 

 which we shall publish next week from advance sheets. 



The book will prove of great interest to aU American 

 hunters. It will be published the first week in October 

 un J the exaet date will be announced in our next issue. 



BASS IN ONEIDA LAKE. 



A GOOD object lesson in protection is just now fur- 

 nished by Oneida Lake in central New York, and it is 

 Mr. Henry Loftie of Syracuse who points out the lesson. 



It is but six or seven years since the bass fishing in 

 Oneida Lake amounted to very little. It had always 

 been a good bass water, but over-fishing and the use of 

 nets had so reduced the supply that one might faithfiflly 

 angle a whole season and yet not in all that time secure 

 the number of fish taken in four hours on Sept. 13 by 

 Mr. Loftie and his wife. For the last few years especial 

 attention has been paid to the protection of Oneida 

 Lake, and illegal fishing has been made rather an ex- 

 pensive pastime. Mr. Loftie and other enthusiastic anglers 

 of Syracuse have nobly held up the arms of the State 

 Game Protector and his subordinates, and they have 

 made it hot for poachers. Besides this, restocking has 

 been done in a smaU way, and we see the results in the 

 splendid fishing now to be had in that beautiful lake. 



Syracuse anglers are naturally desirous that this good 

 work should be continued, feeling that all that they have 

 said and done in the past is made good by the present con- 

 dition of the waters. They hope to obtain for next sea- 

 son a smaU appropriation from the board of supervisors of 

 the county to keep up the work of stocking and to help 

 to pay the private protector of the local association. 



No doubt the supervisors will give them this assistance, 

 for if all be true that we hear of Oneida Lake to-day this 

 is a real case of casting bread upon the waters and receiv- 

 ing it back many times multiplied in due season. 



SUNDAY ALONG THE DOCKS. 



A Sunday stroll along the water front of a great city 

 will interest and sm-prise any angler who has never before 

 been over this ground. It will inform him of the exist- 

 ence of a great number of anglers of whom he has never 

 known, and will show him how deep and how widespread 

 among the people of the city is the love of fishing. On 

 every dock, schooner, coal barge or tied-up steamer to 

 which access can be had, sit the fishermen, each with his 

 basket of bait and lunch, and managing either a rod or 

 two or three hand lines. 



There you will find all sorts and conditions of men, 

 whose occupations are so confining that in all the week 

 they can get only this one day off for their favorite 

 pastime. Salesmen and clerks, mechanics and laborers, 

 men who work at all the various trades and avocations 

 that a great city affords, are to be seen sitting side by 

 side, tending their lines and sharing the freshness of the 

 early autumn air, the beauty of the river scenery, and the 

 hopes — too seldom gratified — of a big catch. Their bait is 

 long clams, shrimp or crabs, and they angle patiently all 

 day long, returning home at night tired, hungry, sun- 

 burned and happy, though perhaps the basket holds only 

 two or three little lafayette fish and a tiny striped bass 

 or an eel. They have had their day out of doors and are 

 better for it. 



Who will grudge these hard working men their Sun- 

 day spent in the open air along the river front, one day 

 in the seven of rest and innocent recreation? 



BAMON E. WILSON. 



The sudden death of Ramon E. Wilson, of San Fran- 

 cisco, Cal., was a shock to all the sportsmen of that State 

 as well as to the business community of which he was so 

 bright an ornament. 



ilr. Wilson was one of the prominent lawyers of San 

 Francisco, being a member of the firm of Wilson & 

 McCutcheon, and had a wide acquaintance all up and 

 down the coast. For many years he had been one of the 

 leading sportsmen of California, and he had given much 

 time and interest to all movements which had for their 

 object the protection of game and the making popular of 

 field sports. He was especially prominent in shooting and 

 fishing matters, as well as in all things pertaining to the 

 kennel. He owned high-class pointers whicli he ran in 

 field trials on the coast. 



Mr. Wilson had occupied many positions of prominence 

 and responsibility in connection with sport. He was once 

 Fish Commissioner and had only recently retired from the 

 presidency of the Pacific Kennel Club. He was a member 

 of the Country Club, the leading sportsman's club on the 

 Pacific coast, which has extensive preserves near San 

 Francisco, in Marin coimty, ajid. of many other shooting 

 clubs on the coast. 



At a meeting of the Pacific Kennel Club recently held, 



Mr. Briggs, the president, paid a high tribute to ]\Ir. Wil- 

 son, and a committee was appointed to draft resolutions 

 expressing the sorrow of the club at his untimely demise. 



As a private citizen Mr. Wilson's position was excep- 

 tionally high, and he was greatly esteemed and beloved 

 by all who knew him. His death leaves a gap in the 

 ranks of sportsmen on the coast which will not be easUy 

 filled. He was about forty-two years old. 



SNAP SHOTS 

 The game laws of New Jersey by section 12 of chapter 

 28 of the laws of 1893 protect insectivorous birds, and 

 among the birds mentioned in this section as protected is 

 the robin. We are told, however, by a gentleman in whom 

 we have confidence that in Bergen county. New Jersey, 

 at Fort Lee, permits to shoot small birds are issued by the 

 local authorities as soon as the berries are ripe, $10 

 being charged for the privilege of the year's shooting. 

 It is said that robins are butchered by scores, and even by 

 hundreds by persons holding these permits, and that such 

 holders are protected in their shooting by the constable of 

 the place. We do not know under what provision of law 

 such permits may be issued by this official, and the matter 

 appears to be one deserving investigation by the game 

 and fish commissioners. 



Arrangements have been made, we are told, for the 

 shipment of a carload of elk from Wyoming to England. 

 The animals are for the estate of Sir Peter Walker, and 

 are to be furnished by W. H. Root, of Laramie, who is 

 weU known to many of our readers. It is believed that 

 the elk will be gathered on the head of Green River, and 

 when the shipment is ready Mr. Root will accompany it 

 and deliver it at the park in England. As is well known, 

 many elk have at different times been shipped to the con- 

 tinent, where they have done well and have freely bred 

 with the red deer, the progeny of the two species being a 

 magnificent animal. The results of this importation to 

 England will be looked forward to with interest. 



The remarkable success attained by the Game Laws in 

 Brief shows very clearly how great is the demand for a 

 small and handy volume which shall give in a few words 

 the gist of the laws governing the taking of game and 

 fish in each political division of North America. Up to 

 the date of issue of the Game Laws in Br ief no such small 

 volume had ever been published. Those which purported 

 to give abstracts of the laws were always incomplete and 

 usually incorrect, for they were never kept up to date, 

 the expense of making the annual changes being so great 

 as to eat up the profits of the venture. Such a publica- 

 tion needs constant watching, and at the end of each 

 legislative year a large proportion of the laws have to be 

 changed. This requires in many cases the reprinting and 

 rebinding of the whole work. In the recently issued 

 edition of the Brief changes had to be made in the laws 

 of more than twenty-five States and Territories. To 

 learn of these changes required correspondence with State 

 officials, and a copy of each new law had to be obtained, 

 abstracted, set up in type, and printed. No doubt the 

 attractive form of the Brief, with its handsome pictures 

 of hunting and fishing scenes, and its advertisements of 

 many of our best gun and fishing tackle houses, makes it 

 sell more readily than the old-time form of game law 

 publications, and it is a good thing that this is so, for the 

 more widely om- game laws are distributed and known 

 the better they wiU be observed. 



The meetings of sportsmen which are daily taking 

 place at the e^ibit of Forest and Stream at the World's 

 Fair are certainly very interesting, and the account of 

 the visitors given by our Western representative in 

 to-day's issue is well worth reading. Here beneath the 

 big white birch sign all sorts and conditions of men from 

 all quarters of the continent or of the globe meet on an 

 equal footing, the footing of their love for outdoor fife. 

 This common interest gives sportsmen a common meeting 

 ground and lovers of the gun or rod or dog or yacht are 

 never at a loss for subjects for conversation when they 

 come together. Not the least interesting of the visitors 

 to the Fair dming the last week, was President Woodruff 

 of Salt Lake City, still hale and hearty and able to read 

 and enjoy Forest and Stream, notwithstanding the 

 burden of 87 years which he carries so lightly, and in 

 contrast to this veteran there are seen now and then in 

 the Forest and Stream space, children sent there 

 from far away by parents who read the paper but cannot 

 •-hemselveB come to the Fair. 



